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Global Space Spending Is Projected to Grow 41% Over the Next Five Years
26Jul By adminNo Comments
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Global Space Spending Is Projected to Grow 41% Over the Next Five Years

[ad_1] The global space economy grew 8% to $546 billion in 2022 and is projected to climb another 41% over the next five years, according to a leading space nonprofit.The sector is expected to show resiliency in the coming years, despite uncertainty about the global economy and a recent slowdown in space investment. Companies are seeing continued revenue growth from commercial space assets and governments around the world boosting expenditures, according to a report from the Space Foundation, a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based space flight advocacy group. The analysis considered spending from 51 governments, as well as commercial revenue from companies in 11 space industry sub-sectors. “Commercial space is the vital growing sector of the overall space economy,” Lesley Conn, director of ...
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Biden’s NASA Budget Request Gives Boost to Artemis Moon-Return Program
10Mar By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s NASA Budget Request Gives Boost to Artemis Moon-Return Program

[ad_1] The Biden administration is requesting $27.2 billion for NASA for its 2024 budget, with substantial funding for the space agency's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon this decade. The amount, released as part of the White House's “skinny budget” request for the federal government on Thursday, is $1.8 billion more than Congress granted NASA in its 2023 budget. The skinny budget, which outlines the president's spending priorities, contained limited details. Roughly $8.1 billion of the requested budget would go toward continued funding and development of the suite of vehicles and infrastructure that make up NASA's Artemis program, according to the White House. That includes the agency's newest deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, built by Boeing Co....
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Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

[ad_1] It's been an eventful year for space exploration, with successes including the completion of Nasa's Artemis 1 mission (finally), the inauguration of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the completion of China's Tiangong space station.2023 is set to be another busy year. Here are five of the most exciting missions to watch out for. Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer In April, the European Space Agency (Esa) is set to launch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), in what will be Europe's first dedicated robotic mission to Jupiter. Juice is due to reach the planet in July 2031 after performing an incredible flight path through the Solar System. The mission will enter into orbit around Jupiter and perform numerous flybys of its large icy moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.After four year...
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Moon mission success! NASA Orion spacecraft enters lunar orbit
26Nov By adminNo Comments
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Moon mission success! NASA Orion spacecraft enters lunar orbit

[ad_1] NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit," the US space agency said on its web site. The spacecraft is to take astronauts to the Moon in the coming years -- the first to set foot on its surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972. This first test flight, without a crew on board, aims to ensure that the vehicle is safe. "The orbit is distant in that Orion will fly about ...
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NASA’s Moon Rocket Exposed to Potential Hurricane on Launchpad
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA’s Moon Rocket Exposed to Potential Hurricane on Launchpad

[ad_1] As Tropical Storm Nicole barrels toward Florida’s East Coast, a $4 billion NASA rocket remains on a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, where it will ride out the approaching storm. As Tropical Storm Nicole barrels toward Florida's East Coast, a $4 billion NASA rocket remains on a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, where it will ride out the approaching storm.Nicole is intensifying and is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, potentially putting the huge Space Launch System rocket at risk. NASA estimates that the SLS can withstand wind gusts of up to 85 mph (74 knots), as well as sustained winds of 46 mph (40 knots). The agency still aims to launch the rocket and uncrewed Orion capsule to the moon on Nov. 14, the first of the agency's Artemis missions, though it's...
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Hurricane threat prompts NASA to delay next launch attempt of moon rocket
9Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hurricane threat prompts NASA to delay next launch attempt of moon rocket

[ad_1] NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA will batten down its big new moon rocket on the launch pad to ride out a hurricane expected to hit near Cape Canaveral, Florida, and its targeted liftoff time next week has been postponed by two days, the U.S. space agency said on Monday. Kennedy Space Center lies near the middle of a 240-mile stretch of Florida's Atlantic shore, where forecasters say Tropical Storm Nicole is most likely to strike Wednesday night or early Thursday as a category 1 hurricane. As of Tuesday night, Nicole was packing maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour (100 kph) and gaining force as it headed for the northern Bahamas en route to Florida, the Miami-...
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NASA looks to launch Artemis lunar test flight again on November 14, 2022
13Oct By adminNo Comments
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NASA looks to launch Artemis lunar test flight again on November 14, 2022

[ad_1] NASA has targeted Nov. 14 for a third attempt to launch its big, next-generation rocketship, the U.S. space agency said. NASA has targeted Nov. 14 for a third attempt to launch its big, next-generation rocketship, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday, after weeks of technical setbacks and foul weather delayed the uncrewed inaugural Artemis mission to the moon. Plans call for rolling the 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion capsule back out to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as early as Friday, Nov. 4 to renew final flight preparations. Safety regulations and deteriorating weather conditions spawned by Hurricane Ian had forced the space agency to return the towering rocketship to its hangar last month followi...
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NASA targets November 14 for Moon rocket launch
13Oct By adminNo Comments
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NASA targets November 14 for Moon rocket launch

[ad_1] NASA said it would try again to launch its mega Moon rocket on November 14 with backup dates later in the week. NASA said Wednesday it would try again to launch its mega Moon rocket on November 14 with backup dates later in the week.The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission has previously been delayed due to technical issues, including gas leaks, and later by Hurricane Ian which hammered Florida. "Inspections and analyses over the previous week have confirmed minimal work is required to prepare the rocket and spacecraft to roll out to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center," the space agency wrote in a blog post. A 69-minute launch window will open at 12:07 am Eastern Time (0407 GMT), with backup dates on November 16 at 1:04 am and November 19 at 1:45 am.Fifty years after the last mission...
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NASA’s Artemis 1 Moon Mission Postponed: 5 Facts Why The Launch Failed
29Aug By adminNo Comments
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NASA’s Artemis 1 Moon Mission Postponed: 5 Facts Why The Launch Failed

[ad_1] The Artemis Moon Mission in a six-week uncrewed voyage.New Delhi: NASA today called off the test flight of its giant Moon rocket 'Artemis 1' because of a leak in one of the four RS-25 engines. The six-week uncrewed mission aims to go around the moon and back 50 years after Apollo's last lunar mission. Here is why the launch of Artemis was called off today:A problem was detected on one of the rocket's main engines, RS-25, 40 minutes before the scheduled liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.  NASA said that they first noticed the 'engine bleed' when the launch team began filling the rocket's core fuel tanks with super-cooled liquid oxygen and hydrogen propellants.The four engines are used during the rocket's core stage a...
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